[Bluebird-babble] House Wrens in bluebird box

[Allan Reishus]

Melissa
You needn't worry about the wren family near your house, they'll be busy 
with their own clutch.  However, next year the wren family will have grown 
up and will be looking for more nesting sites, and your distant bluebird box 
could get infected with wrens.  I'd suggest after the wrens leave their nest 
this year you clean the box and move it to a new site, making sure it is 100 
feet or more from woodsy growth that wrens use for nesting twigs.
Allan Reishus
Craig CO

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Melissa Dove" <mdovefor at msn.com>
To: <bluebird-babble at denveraudubon.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 2:27 PM
Subject: [Bluebird-babble] House Wrens in bluebird box


> We have bluebirds incubating 5 eggs in one next box on the corner of our 
> 40
> acre property and I just discovered over the weekend that house wrens were
> making a next in a bluebird box close to our home.  Do I need to worry 
> that
> the house wrens may attack the bluebird eggs?  They are probably at least
> 1/8 of a mile from each other.
>
> Thanks,
> Melissa
>
>
>
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